Hitler

ThinkProgress wrote: »

Where do I buy his artwork? I thought he was a great artist!

His street scenes and architectural drawings/paintings are pretty good alright. Certainly not the "utterly crap at art" he's since been accused of. His portraits were awkward mind you. Then again he never got much if any training so for a rank amateur he was pretty good. I knew a chap who had one. A street scene of somewhere in Bavaria IIRC. When they come up for sale they don't cost that much, well a few grand kinda thing, maybe ten at the top end. Clearly neo nazis don't have much cash to drop.

Geniass wrote: »

Genocide by who, the Russians seeking revenge? Possibly, but an outworking of human nature.

Dresden was a despicable act in my opinion.

The horror visited upon the German people and those who were considered collaborators after the guns officially stopped firing was unreal. Nigh on a million German soldiers never came home. Pretty much every german woman was raped, often repeatedly and they started with ten year old girls all the way up to grannies. Many are the stories of women jumping into rivers and lakes to drown themselves and their children. The Russians were by far the worst for it, followed by the French. The British and the Americans were far less prone to that sorta thing. These sort of reprisals went on throughout wherever the Germans had wartime influence. Again it was worse in the East. Jews who had survived the Holocaust didnt exactly find open arms welcoming them back either. We generally only get a few of the narratives that make up part of the bigger picture, but all in all ugly business that war. On all sides. Uglier than the slaughter of the Great War IMH. And that's before we get to what was going down in the far east. What the Japanese did to the Chinese people alone beggars belief.